let's make...cushion covers

Ben & I went to a screen printing workshop at Super+Super on Monday evening. We were a bit pooped after a 6 hour drive home from Cornwall but we're both pretty happy with our efforts!

I want to make some more now. Maybe next time I'll try something a little more intricate.

Here are some sketches I used for inspiration...



Penguins are nice.

she sells silkscreens from the sea shore

Just put some of my piano key screenprints up in my etsy shop.
There are a few different colour combinations so do have a peek!

she comes in colours everywhere

These are the results of my last screen printing class. It was a BIG rush trying to get all the colours printed in time...and some of them are a bit higgledy-piggledy but I think I like it like that.

Now I'm thinking of other courses I want to do. Not until October of course, once my MA is finished, but my top choice at the moment is pottery. I'd like to do something messy I think.

NEWSFLASH: It's national sandwich week! I hope you have all been consuming lots of bread based snacks. I have half a loaf of bread at home that needs eating today so I am going to eat many a sandwich for lunch (& a jam sandwich for pudding!).

It was also national limerick day yesterday. Someone wonderful wrote me some rhymes in time for my lunch break - it made my day.

And an advance warning...next Saturday is world turtle day...I'm not sure what you can do to mark such a special occasion but do get thinking now.

one more to go

This week will be my last screen printing lesson. The course has gone ever so quickly but I have managed to get quite a few things done, & I'm finishing off a 6 colour print on Tuesday night - hope it turns out ok (I'm not always that accurate with my registration).

adventures in screen printing

The first layer of a 3 colour print.

a tiny bit

Here is a mini sample from my first & second screenprinting class.
I printed a pile of A3 kite/rain/pigeon combinations and then decided to print a few lone pigeons on different types of paper.

I can assure you that not all my work on the course is going to be pigeon related - this week I began printing a chicken, and an egg.

Maybe I'll even move away from birds in the near future...

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Oh, and also, I'm VERY excited about this event coming up as part of the Brighton Festival Fringe 2009.
Hope to see you all there on the 25th May.
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screen printing

Today I started a screen printing course.
I didn't print a pizza, but I did eat one for lunch.


Did you know the margherita pizza was invented in 1889? Now you do.
See, my blog can be educational too!
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